Sr. VP Federal Health Strategy & Growth

Summary/Objective The Senior Vice President is accountable for the delivery, financial performance, growth, strategic direction, and market positioning of Synensys’ Federal Health portfolio. This executive integrates portfolio management, client stewardship, market development, capture, partner coordination, talent leadership, and corporate management.

The role translates systems science into practical operating models, governance, feedback loops, risk controls, and measurable outcomes for complex federal health environments.

Essential Functions

1. Portfolio and delivery leadership

• Own portfolio performance, including revenue, margin, backlog, forecasting, utilization, staffing, delivery quality, customer satisfaction, risk, and CPARS outcomes.
• Provide executive oversight for FDA OIP and related FDA, VA, DHA, and other federal health programs.
• Lead integrated portfolio reviews covering delivery, financials, staffing, clients, partners, risk, and growth.
• Serve as executive lead for the Aptive relationship; coordinate governance, workshare, issue escalation, integrated planning, and joint growth priorities.
• Coach program leaders, recommend investments and corrective actions, and protect contract compliance, scope, workshare, and Synensys intellectual capital.

1. Executive client leadership

• Own senior relationships with designated federal health executives and stakeholders.
• Build trusted-advisor relationships through mission fluency, candid counsel, reliable execution, and measurable value.
• Develop stakeholder maps and engagement plans that expand relationships across offices, programs, and agencies.
• Represent Synensys in executive briefings, conferences, strategic sessions, and other high-value forums.

1. Market strategy and growth

• Develop and execute the Federal Health strategy across priority agencies, mission areas, capabilities, contract vehicles, partners, and investments.
• Differentiate Synensys in systems safety, safety intelligence, systems science, responsible AI, digital health, interoperability, organizational transformation, research, and evaluation.
• Maintain a market roadmap connecting customer priorities, contracts, emerging needs, company capabilities, and long-term growth objectives.
• Advise executive leadership on market conditions, competitive positioning, partnerships, capability gaps, and investments.

1. Business development and capture

• Own account plans, qualified pipeline, opportunity shaping, capture strategy, recompete protection, and revenue growth.
• Serve as executive sponsor, capture lead, solution executive, or reviewer for priority pursuits.
• Establish standards for qualification, capture planning, competitive assessment, solution development, win strategy, pricing alignment, teaming, oral presentations, and executive review.
• Set realistic growth targets aligned with Synensys’ strategy, capabilities, capacity, and risk tolerance.

1. FDA systems transformation initiative

• Shape and launch an FDA-facing capability that applies systems science to policy, operations, technology modernization, and regulatory work.
• Translate systems theory, STAMP, STPA, CAST, control structures, feedback loops, and organizational learning into accessible executive and practitioner methods.
• Connect systems methods to responsible AI, digital health, interoperability, mission risk, change adoption, safety, and evidence-based decisions.
• Develop thought leadership, workshops, maturity models, pilots, and roadmaps that can scale across FDA and transfer to VA, DHA, and other federal health settings.

1. Talent and enterprise leadership

• Build, develop, and retain the leadership, delivery, capture, and subject-matter talent needed to scale the portfolio.
• Recommend hiring, succession, development, and deployment priorities; establish clear accountability across account, program, capture, solution, and technical leaders.
• Mentor emerging leaders and strengthen executive, program-management, client-management, and business-development capabilities.
• Contribute to annual planning, investment decisions, partnering, solution development, recruiting, and executive reviews.
• Institutionalize scalable account, portfolio, capture, and business-development practices and promote cross-market knowledge sharing. Required Education and Experience
• Advanced degree in public health, health policy, systems science, organizational science, evaluation, business, or a related field; doctoral degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive leadership in federal health, public health, healthcare, life sciences, regulatory, or government consulting, including support to a major federal health agency.
• Experience leading a multi-account or multi-program portfolio with responsibility for delivery, financial performance, executive relationships, growth, and talent.
• Demonstrated capture and business-development success, including opportunity shaping, executive engagement, teaming, solution development, and proposal leadership.
• Experience building or scaling a practice, market, capability, offering, account, or multidisciplinary professional-services organization.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and prime-subcontractor or strategic teaming relationships.
• Ability to translate technical, scientific, and organizational concepts into executive decisions and implementation plans.
• Executive-level writing, facilitation, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills; ability to travel as required. Preferred Education and Experience
• Credibility and relationships across FDA, VA, DHA, HHS operating divisions, or adjacent federal health organizations.
• Experience across multiple federal health customers and with responsible AI, digital health, interoperability, regulatory modernization, safety science, systems engineering, research, or evaluation.
• History of creating or scaling a federal health capability, practice, offering, or market account.
• Published thought leadership or national-level speaking experience in a relevant field. Other Duties Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Synensys is committed to providing its employees with a work environment that is free of unlawful discrimination on the basis of any legally protected status including race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, protected veterans or other status protected by law.